Chapter III

Personalities

Yudel Der Schreiber

Yudel der Shreiber was one of the earliest educators in Antopol.
As was the custom in those days, the "shreibers" were both official and
private writers in the community where people were literate, but mostly
in the Holy Scriptures and the Prayer Book.

Reb Yudel excelled in the knowledge of the "small letters", both in
Hebrew and in Russian. He also gave private lessons to young and adult
students.

His father, Reb Shmuel Friedman had been the head of the Jewish community,
as well as a known wealthy landowner. His son Yosl married and moved to
Bialistok and used to visit his parents on holidays. Yosl's son, Benjamin,
moved with his family to Israel in 1924. He passed away in 1943.

Reb Yudel's daughters, Rivka and Masha, born to him and his wife Meite,
left the town and emigrated to the U.S. about 1910. Masha married the late
Dr. Phoebus Berman, the son of Rabbi Moshe Berman who had been Rabbi of
Antopol. Rivka married the late Dr. Isaac Burstein. She visited Israel
in 1960. Her son, Dr. Herschel H. Burston and his wife visited Israel last
year, and took great interest in the projects and accomplishments of the
local Antopol organization, such as the synagogue, the Izkor Book etc.

Dr. Burston has been very active in financing the publication of the
memorial book, and together with the late Dr. Berman they also outlined
the contents of the English part, in order to leave for later generations
of American Jews the story of Antopol in English.

Prof. P. Czerniak

Moshe Stavy (Stavsky)

On July 23 1964 we were bereaved in the passing away of our dear brother
Moshe Stavy.

He was born in Antopol in the 1880's to his father Yaacov-Shmuel Stavsky
and his mother Rivka (nee Lifshitz). When their mill was consumed by fire
they moved to Kremenchuk. In the course of their many travels, young Moshe
came to Warsaw and got acquainted with a group of young poets, who opened
the renaissance of Hebrew-Jewish literature. He began to publish his first
works, and finally he settled in Warsaw from where be used to come home
on visits. During one of his visits he happened to save his niece who was
then a revolutionary. He managed to hide her and smuggle her to Kremenchuk.

Coming back to Warsaw be continued his struggles, preferring the hard
life of a young writer over easy life in a well to do family. Here he met
his future wife and together they moved to Israel. In 1911 they sailed
on a primitive Russian boat from Odessa to Jaffa - after a fierce struggle
with the sea, the Turks, and lack of food and water. Upon arrival in Jaffa
started another hard period. Moshe, who since boyhood loved nature, decided
to revive the love of nature in the holy land. He began studying the new
environment, the Arab neighbors, their way of life, and became an expert
on the Arabs in Israel. He began working the land and became a farmer.
He became also an expert in Hebrew in which he now published his old Jewish
stories, as well as new ones. When his literary life became unbearable,
he turned completely to agriculture. After a while, when he was already
a successful farmer in Beer-Tuvia he came back to Tel-Aviv, and began writing
on farming and agriculture.

He became also a friendly adviser to Antopoler who respected his experience
and knowledge. He was always helpful and found time for Antopol affairs.
He used to make trips to his old birth town, and many young people of that
period remember his encouraging meetings which later brought them to settle
in Israel.

When we arrived in Israel in 1950, we found our Moshe in the prime of
his success in literature, public affairs, social activities, and writing,
criticising and learning, travelling to various settlements to lectures
and demonstrations in agricultural subjects.

Finally he began suffering physically and his eyes also deteriorated,
which made him more miserable. The loneliness was insufferable, but Stavy
fought nature consistently. He did not let any of his numerous friends
to comfort him.

For the last 14 years I had the honor to get to know the personality
of Stavy the writer. Personally I was privileged to offer him medical attention
and services, get near him and win the confidence of the great uncle. I
learned that under the hard appearance beat a tender heart. He was always
human, a man who for 80 years worked hard, very hard, fought much, built
much physically and spiritually. Thus he built for himself a permanent
monument extending from the Jewish quarter in Warsaw, via Antopol. and
Lvov to Beer-Tuvia and Gadera, New-York and Tel-Aviv. A man who opened
his house in TelAviv to all numerous friends in every settlement.

Stavy's library on science, nature and labor, on cattle and fields,
on oriental fables for children and adults; on the biblical Hebrew and
agricultural Hebrew, and on Arab folklore - all these form an important
national treasure.

He did not finish his work. He prepared much material for additional
publications. He began working and contributing to Yizkor Books. In 1962
he headed the Israel committee for publication of the Antepoler Yizkor Book.
Suddenly he left us and passed away. We fought hard to save his life, but
to no avail.

May this Yizkor Book, which he dreamt about, help keep his memory in
our hearts!

A. Ben-Ezra

Dr. Phoebus Berman

One of the shining stars in the U.S.A. was Dr. Phoebus (Feitl) Berman,
born in Antopol and faithful to Antopol until his death.

Dr. Berman, whom we called Feitl back home, was born in 1890 in Antopol
and died in the U.S.A. in 1967. His father was Rabbi Moshe Berman, who
gave his son a strict religious education. At a young age he was sent to
Rozhinai, birthplace of his father, to study at the Yeshiva there. Later
he studied at the Yeshiva in Yanove.

The young man began also to look into foreign studies, and went to the
Pinsk High School, where he graduated with honors, and then he returned
home to teach Russian and general studies. Along with teaching young Feitl
became active in the local youth movement, and finally his thirst for knowledge
brought him to the U.S.A. in 1913.

In 1916 he started at U.C.L.A. Here, too, he excelled in his studies,
received a gold medal and a scholarship. In 1919 he received his degree
in medicine, and after ten years of practice, in 1929 he was appointed
director of the district hospital in L.A., one of the largest in the U.S.A.
He continued also to lecture at his alma mater.

Under his leadership the hospital developed to house 3,800 beds and
over 100,000 patients per year.

Dr. Berman also invented several significant medical inventions, which
are used all over the world. In 1956 he retired to engage in a diversified
public activity, still continuing to keep in touch with the hospital and
with Jewish life.

When it was decided to publish a Yizkor book, he was one of the initiators
and active doers. He also contributed and collected money for this cause,
and wrote several articles for the book, full of love to the town of his
birth.

His wife Masha (daughter of Yudl der Shreiber) was always having a great
part in his success. His brother, the famous poet, had a mutual influence
with his public activities, and continues to fill the late Feitl's will
regarding the book.

May the memory of our dear Feitl be with us forever!

P. Berman

Dr. Herschel Burston

Dr. Herschel Burston came to America as a young boy with his parents.
He is a grandson of Yudl der Shreiber, one of the first scribes and teachers
in Antopol.

As new immigrants they had a very difficult beginning, but the young
man was encouraged to study. He went to high school, college and university
and graduated with honors form the School of Medicine.

He specialized in plastic surgery and is today one of the best in the
field. Among his patients are famous artists and actors. However his success
did not change his good popular nature and friendly personality.

Dr. Burston has a wonderful wife and two lovely children, a boy and
a girl. He gave them Jewish education in a Jewish school as well as personal
Jewish knowledge. He himself speaks, writes and reads Jewish fluently,
and subscribes to Jewish papers and journals. He takes part in and contributes
to Jewish projects in America and in Israel. Antopol is very dear to him,
and he always remembers the fate of the Jewish community.

Among the important persons who originated from Antopol, Dr. Burston
rightly occupies a prominent place.

E. Leidiger

Akiva Ben Ezra

In 1914 a young man of 17 came to the U.S.A. For several years he
sought his way, and worked in many odd jobs, until in 1917 he found what
he was looking for - Jewish education. He taught in several schools and
acquired experience in teaching Hebrew and religious subjects. He was liked
by his students and became a successful teacher and educator.

While still teaching young children he began his research in education
and published several articles on the subject. Faithful to Jewish tradition,
he was teaching his students Jewish customs and way of life, and thus published
text books on these subjects. He also set rules for teaching the prayer
book within the curriculum of Jewish studies.

During the 30 years of teaching at the Yeshiva "Ohel Moshe" in Brooklyn,
he was also fruitful in the literary field. He contributed to the Jewish
press in America and in the Hebrew press like "Hadoar", "BeZion", "Shvilei
Hahinuh", "HaZofeh" and others. He went also into literary criticism, delved
into history of Hassidism and published a monograph about the "Yenuka"
of Stolin. His monographies about Reb Pinchas Michael and about Reb Mordchele
are famous in the literary world. He also continued his research about
Jewish holidays customs and published his famous book "Customs of Holidays".

In his introduction to this book Ben Ezra writes : "I have incorporated
in this book the various customs which I found recorded until today, and
stressed the differences in various communities". This book was written
in a scientific approach and contains a treasure of footnotes and
cross-references.
Ben Ezra writes also for children, short stories adapted to the young.

Ben Ezra loves the Hebrew book. He loves books, and his private collection
contains many thousands of books. He is also a famous bibliographer. He
published bibliographies of Professor Zvi Sharfstein, Dr. Shlomo Rubin
and others. He also published a bibliography of "Shvilei Hahinuh" and edited
the "Ketavim Ivriim" of Dr. Morris Robinson.

Ben Ezra is a Hebrew Zealot. His friends and acquaintances know that
he speaks only Hebrew. He educated his children in Hebrew and his family
was among the first in America where children spoke Hebrew. Ben Ezra was
fortunate to give his son and daughter a national-religious education at
the Yeshiva of Flatbush. After graduation his son went to the teachers
seminary affiliated to the Rabbinical Seminary of Rabbi Schechter, and
now he is a Chemical Engineer and an active public figure in Binghampton,
N.Y. while his talented daughter, after graduating from the Herzlia teachers
seminary in N.Y. with honors, married Rabbi Prof. Haim Daneburg from Montreal.

About two years ago Ben Ezra retired and after preliminary arrangements
came to settle in Israel.

A. Baraban

Pintche Berman

There is poetry which, even if its reader is in a high state of reception,
he can not always grasp the meaning of the poet's thoughts as expressed
in his writings. Some people think that simplicity in poetry is just
unacceptable.
Some critics even do not pay attention to simple poetry. However,
writing poetry in straight language is in many instances a very difficult
undertaking. David Frishman, in his "Bamidbar", tried to reach a
classic-meteorish-simple
Bible style, but it was detached from the Bible itself. Miguel Cervantes
reached classic simplicity, and we were always looking for a poet in Yiddish
to do the same.

I was meditating on these thoughts when I was reading the book "Offene
Fentzter" by Pintche Berman. His poetry is simple and hearty, tributes
which get the poet nearer to prose as a form. Another tribute to Berman's
poetry - his marvelling at the world, at life in general. I believe that
he must have tried on various occasions to delve into the mystery of life,
withdrawing in time to prevent him from turning into pessimism. Because
essentially, Berman is a positive enthusiast, and he loves life as well
as the essence of living - existence.

In many of his works Berman brings out the sorrow and grief over the
destruction of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and only with his positive
enthusiasm, mentioned above, be manages to treat the wounds in his heart
over the unfortunate fate of his birth town.

A. Baraban

Abraham Warsaw

Out of the many Jewish little towns, which had been destroyed in
Europe, only a small number was lucky to be commemorated in Yizkor books.
Antopol was one of the lucky ones, because many years before the holocaust
there were enough young people who left town and emigrated to other countries,
where they settled, developed and survived to tell the story of their martyred
home-town and community.

One of the outstanding figures among the one time emigrants, who settled
in the U.S.A. is Abraham Warsaw of Miami Beach, author of the great book
"Years of Fire and Blood".

In his introduction to the book we learn that his talent in writing
developed during twenty years, in writing short stories about his home
town, when - in his modesty - he did not dare to dream about publishing
them in a book. However in the course of time some of the top Yiddish writers
in America discovered the treasure. Leading writers like Dr. Mokdoni, Abraham
Reisin, and A. Kravetz urged Warsaw, aided by Antopoler landsleit to publish
his great collection, knowing that by doing so they are erecting a literary
monument to the holy martyrs of Antopol.

And in fact, upon reading the book we discover two different discoveries:
The prose writer, the refined author, and the town with its population
- Jews and non-Jews; everyday and holiday; simple Jews and scholars; workers
and merchants; high ranking rabbis and, simple scholars; Zionists and
socialists,
communists and revolutionists. In short - a dynamic Antopol, living and
active, before it was destroyed by the Nazis.

The talent of Abraham Warsaw belongs to the sort of authors who saw
their birth town with warmth and always cherished their memory with only
good memories. They described them lyrically, hence the sad undertone,
although the happenings themselves oftentimes were rather tragic. This
is understood also from the name of the book "Years of Fire and Blood".
As an example take Warsaw's description of 1920 in Antopol, during the
war between Poland and the Bolsheviks :

"Day and night were heard the enemy's artillery giving out fearsome
sounds and painting the skies red and blue. Clouds, painted green-white,
were moving and disappearing in the sky. The forest, with its golden-yellow
leaves shining in the autumn sun, resounds its, echo to the bursting shells
which stir the world. On the ground, drenched with blood, you can see people
crawling in green clothes the color of grass. Through hidden trails people
walk silently to keep away from the enemy and its airplanes which throw
fire and human limbs. Hundreds of human beings in green are swallowed in
the forest in which every minute the -steel, fire and lead put out the
lives of scores of people".

The Jews of Antopol do not want either one of the fighting enemies:
The Poles hate the Jews, kill and loot them, and the Bolsheviks hate Jewish
life in general, Still better they than the Poles. One live Jew is better
than dead by the Poles. But on the first day of Bolshevik rule, on the
eve of Yom Kippur, the Jews feel that the newcomers hate also Jewish religion:

"In the market, on an elevated stand, the new speakers attacked God,
tradition, old culture, etc. The voices penetrated the open windows and
doors of the prayer houses, and the praying Jews were stunned, as if asking
- what is happening here?"

Warsaw's stories give the reader an opportunity to meet the people of
Antopol. Here is Meier'l the builder, "a phlegmatic man, a great believer,
a hospitable man in secret". In this story Warsaw describes the great respect
of Antopol Jews to scholars, a respect without outside manifestations,
but with inner respect to the Torah itself, and to the scholar who studies
it.

The language in Warsaw's stories is idiomatic. The descriptions are
extremely plastic. In the rather great story "Fire and Blood" Warsaw achieved
a high literary standard. He penetrated into the deep beings of the types,
whom he describes, their soul psychology, and their situation. He brings
forth the early period of the Russian revolution, when the Jews still looked
up to it, hoping to benefit from it in their dire existence.
Here is the description of the town revolutionary. the future commisar,
a man with a sensitive soul, who detests dogmatism and terror, although
he himself got involved to perform brutal deeds by order to the authorities,
under the disguise of the proletarian dictatorship.

A. Warsaw draws his inspiration from the love of his birth town, from
his Antopol. He is proud of her, and rightly so:

"We, the small children of Israel, listened attentively to the stories,
of our elders about the greatness of our town, and they told about her
with pride and enthusiasm. After all in its cemetery were the "tents" of
great Rabbis like Reb Moshe-Zvi and Reb Pinchas Michael, may they pray
for us. And the Cold Shul whose fame is known all over. And where is the
list of rabbis who graduated from the ancient Yeshiva? All this gave us
a feeling of joy and self pride".

Abraham H. Lieff

Abraham H. Lieff is known as one of the builders of Ottawa's Jewish
community.

He studied law at the University of Toronto and began practice in 1926.
He was a Carleton County magistrate from 1937 to 1945 and served on the
Collegiate Institute Board, the board of directors of St. Vincent's Hospital,
and service clubs.

Mr. Lieff was the first Jewish lawyer to be elevated to the bench of
the Ontario Supreme Court, and Mrs. Lieff, the former Sadie Lazarovitz,
received her law degree in Nova Scotia, where she was a member of the bar
even after moving with her husband to a new residence.

Both were associated all their life with religious, fraternal, social
and educational organizations.

At a testimonial dinner in honor of Mr. Lieff upon his retirement as
President of Agudath
Israel Congregation, creation of the A. H. Lieff Cultural Foundation
was announced to express his interest in the promotion of the tradition
and culture of the Jewish community.

Chapter IV

Landsleit Organizations

Ruth Rosenblatt

Antepoler Aid Associations in the U.S.A.

In the winter of 1921 the Relief Committee of the landsleit in New-York
sent a delegate to Antopol, to inquire about the fate of the Jewish population
after World War I. When Morris Lifshitz came he had money for the local
Jews from their direct relatives in the U.S., as well as 500 dollars from
the Antepoler Young Men who donated the money for buying a house for an
Orphans' Home to house and help the orphans of World War I. Joel Bendet
was among the founders of the Home, whose first officers were elected:
Hersh Nitzberg - president; Abraham Feldstein - vice-president; David Warszawski
and Aaron Shagan, Mrs. Nahum Wolinetz members. The supervisor of the Home
was Frumtse Lifshitz, the daughter of Udel Lifshitz.

The Antepoler Y.M.B.A. sent yearly contributions towards the orphans'
home, and after my father came to the U.S.A., he initiated help also for
other institutions in Antopol, namely: Talmud-Torah, Hebrew Tarbut School,
Gmilus Hasodim, and the Matzo Fund (Maos Hitim).

Later a committee was organized incorporating all societies of Antepoler,
namely THE ANTEPOLER FEDERATION OF AMERICA, with David Bayuk as president,
Hyman Goldberg and Leon Wolowelsky as secretaries, and we started to send
help to the above institutions. The same committee helped also in building
the public Mikve in Antopol, as well as other necessities of the Jewish
community.

With the establishment of the State of Israel, a committee of the United
Jewish Appeal was organized with Leon Wolowelsky as chairman, Joseph Rosen
as co-chairman, to collect money for Israel, and two years later, when
the first Bonds issue was proclaimed, we the Antepoler made a big drive
to sell Israel Bonds. The President now is brother Hyman Sterman.

Antepoler Ladies Auxiliary of Harlem

Mrs. Lifshe Seidberg and Mrs. Mirke Seidel (Putterman)

Many Antepoler immigrants settled in Harlem around 1910. They felt lonely
and decided to organize an association which would give them a social meeting
place, and would also secure their unity in Paradise by acquiring and
maintaining
their own cemetery.

We had our first celebration in my house. We were happy and sure that
our organization will survive and expand. A short time later we invited
our beloved Rabbi Abraham Kotler for a benediction. We rented a large hall
and invited all our landsleit to the meeting. I was elected president and
we all made it our goal to help our needy people.

Although we were spread out in New York and vicinity, we continued to
maintain our ties. When something had to be done for Antopol, we always
managed to continue the nice tradition of helping the needy. I must mention
again Rabbi Kotler and his dear wife, who were always ready to answer our
call. Although we enjoyed our meetings socially, we made it our goal to
help the needy Antepoler. All the money raised in benefit shows, Purim
and Hanuka campaigns, and other projects, was dedicated for aid. Every
celebration, or G-d forbid, mourning, was an occasion for collecting donations
to be sent to the late Rabbi Wolkin in Antopol, and he used to distribute
the money among the town institutions.

Our greatest grief came when we heard that Antopol was no more, after
that the Nazi murderers had put to death all our dear ones.

During all the time we contributed also to HIAS, JOINT, NATIONAL FUND,
UJA, as well as individuals. We also purchased a bed in the Jewish Chronic
Disease Hospital of Brooklyn.

A major project undertaken by us was the adoption of a girl survivor
from a concentration camp. We sent every year $ 360 as well as packages
until she grew up. We contributed also to Maos Hittin and local charities
like the Red Cross.

Finally, when the Antepoler landsleit undertook to publish this Yizkor
Book, we were among the first to give a hand in this holy work.

A Short History of the Antepoler Y.M.B.A.

Leon Wolowelsky

At the end of the 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th Century,
large numbers of our Jewish people emigrated to the United States of America.
Most of them settled on the lower East Side of Manhattan, where some of
our people who preceded them had previously settled. They all came from
Eastern Europe and great numbers from Czarist Russia, from where they had
departed because of persecution and the threat of the Pogrom. Most of them
were young and inspired with the ideal of liberty and freedom, which they
soon found flourished in their new homeland.

Coming from different cities, towns and villages from the old homeland,
they were not satisfied to live in an unorganized community as individuals;
they felt a certain strangeness, a loneliness, a longing for the past
association
and comradeship which they had in common in the old hometown where they
were born and grew to manhood. They had an urge to reconstruct the past
and to surround themselves in an environment of their own.

To overcome these shortcomings, they felt that they must combine themselves
with other landsleit in groups. The synagogue was the first of the institutions
thus formed, where landsleit congregated for religious services.

The younger element soon found that the Synagoue had to be supplemented
by other group institutions. Living in an era where the individual was
subjected to various kinds of economic pressures and uncertainties and
feeling insecure on many fronts, they were looking for some sort of mutual
protection. To a considerable degree our association provided its members
with the sense of security which they were seeking.

On or about September 20, 1906, a group of young men under the leadership
of the late Brother David Bayuk, met at the apartment of our late Brother
Nathan Weissman at 23 Orchard Street in New York City and decided to organize
the Antepoler Y.M.B.A.

A charter was applied for at the Department of State in Albany, N. Y.,
which was granted and officially recorded as at October 6, 1906.

The first meeting of the Antepoler Y.M.B.A. was held on October 4th,
1906 at 412 Grand Street in New York City. In addition to the charter members,
the following were present: Louis Goldman, Joe Eisenberg, Joe Greenberg,
Nathan Weissman, Max Cohen, Sam Cohen, Isidore Lipofsky, Louis Gerstein,
Abe Kolodner and a number of others whose names we do not remember.

A Committee was appointed to work out rules and regulations and to interpret
the meaning of Benevolence as to be applied to our membership in a practical
way. Those named to the Committee were Max London No. 1, David Bayuk, Louis
Goldman, Sam Feinberg and Philip Goldman.

The next meeting was called for November 10, 1906, at 96 Clinton Street,
New York City. The Committee brought in its report which was adopted after
some discussion and modification as follows:

1. Dues shall be $ 150 per quarter.

2. The financial and recording secretaries shall
serve without pay.

3. A limited amount of six dollars per week was to be paid
to members in case of sickness and also as a Shivah benefit.

4. Aid and assistance was to be provided to members in
distress.

5. No benefit of any kind could be paid to
members if the. Treasury held $ 500 or less,

6. Free medical services were to be provided to members,
their wives and their minor children.

7. As soon as financially possible, the organization would provide for in case of death, for a free cemetery plot, and the payment of funeral expenses and death
benefits.

The list of the brethren who have served as President and who have guided
us ably and successfully, in the order in which they served are as follows:
Max London No. 1, Sam Feinberg, Louis Goldman, Nathan I. Corbin, Philip
Goldman, Joseph Greenberg, Abe Kolodner, David Bayuk, David Bayarsky, Hyman
Goldberg, Hyman Resnick, Israel Rabinowitz, Julius Cuttler, Oscar Palefsky,
Max Katz, Julius Garber, Joseph Rosen and Hyman Sterman.

Our present officers and leaders give their time and effort to the service
of our organization and its members and serve with loyalty, honor and
distinction.

In reviewing our accomplishments for the past 64 years, we find that
the objectives which we set out to achieve were carried out both in letter
and in spirit and our membership was always served honestly and well. No
small part of this achievement is due to our Leaders, both past and present,
who with dedication contributed their ability and resourcefulness to make
our organization a significant force in the Jewish Community

From Antopol to Argentina

E. M. Torniansky

Jewish emigration from Antopol to Argentina began in 1902, upon the
arrival of the Gedalia Gerstein family. They settled in Mosesville on an
agricultural project, and later they moved to the south, where part of
the family still lives on agriculture. But most newcomers settled in Buenos
Aires. In spite of hardship in the beginning, they finally found their
place in the new country.

In 1924 the increased number of Antopoler encouraged the foundation
of an association to keep ties with the old country and to keep in touch
in the new one. Newcomers were given hospitality and aid and usually were
helped in finding work in the new environment.

In addition to sending aid to Antopol, also a local loan association
was founded, whose first president was the Shohet Reb Kalman Mazkewitz,
son in law of the late Reb Feivl Shagan. A home for the Aged was built
as well as a Jewish center. Many other institutions and fund raising campaigns
pave the history of the Jewish community.

All over the country there are landsleit from our little birth town,
and in every place they represent Antopol tradition with pride and honor.

The Gmilus Hassodim Fund

M. Polak

The Gmilus Hassodim Fund was established to help the Antopol refugees
who survived from the holocaust in Europe, as well as local landsleit.

The major part was taken by our devoted brethren in America, and we
in Israel undertook to promote the commemoration of our Antopol tradition.

A special project has been inaugurated in the form of a IL 50,000 fund,
from the interest of which scholarships will be granted annually to needy
talented high schools children.

A great synagogue in the center of Tel-Aviv was constructed in memory
of the martyrs of Antopol. Funds were raised mainly in the U.S.A. to help
us build this community center in which we dedicated a special room, on
whose walls are inscribed the names of our dear ones.

Another project of commemoration is a tombstone in the Yad Vashem center
in Jerusalem, where the tombstone or Antopol stands among others of the
6 million Jews murdered in Europe. A complete list of all our Antopol dear
ones is placed there.

We also placed a memorial plaque on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

In Beer-Sheva, capital of the Negev, and in Hazor, in upper Galilee,
we established, with funds from our brethren in America, vocational schools
and large houses for new immigrants, all in memory of our dear martyrs
who lost their lives in Antopol.

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